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Java Apps More Vulnerable than .NET Apps, Report Finds

Java apps earn higher security vulnerability score than .NET apps, a Contrast Lab report finds.

Devs in Retail and Hospitality Fix Flaws Faster, Veracode Report Concludes

A new report from Application Security Testing (AST) solutions provider Veracode shows that software developers working in the retail and hospitality sector are fixing flaws in their companies' software at a faster rate than five other sectors--despite having to work with applications that tend to be older and larger than other sectors. 

Mendix Brings Low Code to China

Enterprise low-code platform maker Mendix announced the introduction of its platform to the Chinese market this week.

Red Hat to Acquire StackRox

Red Hat announced that it is acquiring Kubernetes-native security provider StackRox sometime in the first quarter of 2021. It's first acquisition by Red Hat since it was acquired by IBM.

Microsoft Upgrades Java Project View in VS Code

Microsoft's popular open-source, cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), has received an update of its new project view, better known as the Java Projects Explorer.

BMC Pumps Up Mainframe Intelligence, Security, and DevOps

BMC unveils new capabilities and enhancements for its Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware portfolios to protect mainframe customers' uptime and availability, defend the mainframe against cybersecurity threats, and advance enterprise DevOps.

MariaDB Reactive Relational Database Connectivity Connector Goes GA

The MariaDB Corp., the company behind MariaDB, community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), today announced the general availability of the MariaDB Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) connector.

AWS Greengrass 2.0 Edge Runtime: New Dev Capabilities and Open Source

AWS unveils a new, open-source version of its AWS IoT Greengrass edge runtime and cloud service.

CircleCI Adds Enterprise-Focused Capabilities to Growing CI/CD Ecosystem

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform provider CircleCI has announced new platform additions aimed at furthering the extensibility of its platform and growing ecosystem.

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New Container Capabilities in AWS for Devs

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces four new new container capabilities designed to help develop, deploy, and scale modern applications.

Developers Get New Features via Atlassian's Jira Software Cloud

Software development and collaboration tools provider Atlassian has announced four new features in its Jira Software Cloud designed to allow developers to visualize and measure progress "from idea through to production" across Atlassian and third-party tools.

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Jelastic Onboard Early with Jakarta EE Cloud Support

Cloud hosting platform provider Jelastic was one of the first cloud vendors to announce full compatibility of its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with the newly-released Eclipse Jakarta EE 9 specifications.

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Instana Adds Automatic Tracing for Lambda Functions in Java and Go

Instana announces the availability of automated distributed tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go.

Amazon DevOps Guru Release from AWS

Amazon DevOps Guru uses machine learning to detect operational issues and recommend specific actions for remediation automatically.

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JetBrains IntelliJ-based PhpStorm Release Adds Support for PHP 8

Software development toolmaker JetBrains released a new version of its PhpStorm web app dev tool this week with new support for the newly released PHP 8.

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Payara and Azul Secure Java Builds of OpenJDK for Payara Enterprise

Azul Systems and Payara have extended their agreement to ship Azul's Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK with Payara Platform Enterprise.

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Ivanti Neurons Platform Provides Automation between Service Management and SecOps

Ivanti enhances the capabilities of its flagship Enterprise Service Management (ESM) portfolio with greater automation capabilities between service management and SecOps.

SmartBear Releases SwaggerHub Extension for Visual Studio Code

SmartBear releases the SwaggerHub extension for Visual Studio Code.

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Experimental Features, Fixes, and Improvements in Latest Kotlin Release

The latest point release of Kotlin delivers fixes and performance improvements for existing features, along with new experimental features and a call from the Kotlin team for feedback.

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AWS 'Investing to Deliver Rust Engineering at Amazon Scale'

With Rust becoming a bigger part of its development backbone, AWS is seeking to bring more Rust engineers into its ranks.